Free John White: A Building Bridges exclusive with the recently convicted John White, attorney Frederick Brewington, Minister Kevin Mohammed, and the Rev. Al Sharpton directly from the mass support rally for John White at the Suffolk County Criminal Court Building(28:17) The right to protect one's home and family is as American as apple pie - or is it when it comes to African-Americas? The recent conviction for manslaughter in Suffolk County of John White, who awoke to find a mob of white...
Topics: civil rights, judicial misconduct, Rev, Al Sharpton, Suffolk County
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ***************** Prison Inmates Hunger Strike for Their Lives with . Delores Canales, member of California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement (Cfasc), Advisory Board of CURB (Californians United for a Responsible Budget) and LWSGI (Lives Worth Saving Gang Intervention), mother of a Pelican Bay SHU prisoner and . Carol Strickman, attorney, Legal Services for Prisoners With Children, member of the Prisoner Hunger...
Topics: California prison hunger strike, Delores Canales, California Families to Abolish Solitary...
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ******************** A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Woman Who Dared to Speak Out with Malalai Joya Malalai Joya, is an extraordinary young woman who helped establish a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home province of Farah; and a constitutional assembly in Kabul, Afghanistan. She became the youngest person elected to Afghanistanâs new Parliament, but in 2007 was...
Topics: Malalai Joya, A Woman Among Warlords, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan women
Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report National Edition Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ******************************** Todayâs Opinion, Yosvany Terryâs Latest Musical Journey Composer, musician Yosvany Terry has helped redefine the Afro-Cuban and contemporary jazz idiom in the New York music scene. His new release Todayâs Opinion reflects his deep cultural roots as well as the versatility of his musical styles. This exceptional, multilayered recording Todayâs...
Topics: Yosvany Terry, Jazz, Today's Opinoin, Cuba and Jazz, Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz
WBAIâs Radio Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Monday, April 18, 2011, 7 â 8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM or streaming live at http://www.wbai.org ****************** Just A Cutting & A Slicing: Bloomberg Seeks To Eliminate Subsidized Day Care with GL Tyler, Political Action Director, DC 1707 Mayor Bloomberg, is attempting to eliminate nearly 17,000 infants and toddlers from safe, quality and affordable day care. The âEducation Mayorâ is...
Topics: Mayor Bloomberg, day care, child care, DC 1707 AFSCME, G.L. Tyler, NYC budget
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Text Unveiled: Itâs Worse Than We Thought with Melinda St. Louis | International Campaigns Director Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch The long-awaited release of the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) revealed that the pact replicates many of the most controversial terms of past pacts that promote job offshoring...
Topics: TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership, US trade agreements, free trade, Public Citizen's Global Trade...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Institutional Racism in the U.S. labor market - What is to be done? with William Spriggs, Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO and professor in, and former chair of the Department of Economics at Howard University. Bill is also former assistant secretary for the Office of Policy at the United States Department of Labor The so-called recovery of the US economy has not...
Topics: Bill Spriggs AFL-CO, African American unemployment, African American poverty, Home attendants New...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Out In The Union: A Labor History Of Queer America with Mariam Frank, author Against the backdrop of the historic ruling of the Supreme Court that gay marriage is legal in all the states of this union and in furtherance of addressing the numerous other inequities faced by LGBTQ and gender nonconforming people Miriam Frank, Prof. of Humanities at New York...
Topics: Miriam Frank, LGBTQ and unions, Labor History of Queer America, Ban the Box NYC. Criminal Records...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** First âDreamerâ gets deported, 32BJ responds with Héctor Figueroa, Pres. of 32BJ Service Employees International Union, the largest property services union in the country. Juan Manuel Montes Bojorquez, 23, has lived in the United States since he was 9. He said he had a valid permit. He has become the first so-called Dreamer to be deported by...
Topics: Héctor Figueroa Local 32BJ DACA, DACA labor unions, SEIU Local 32BJ, Héctor Figueroa labor...
Building Bridges with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, December, 24, 2012, 7 - 8 pm EST over WBAI Radio, 99.5 FM, ******************************** âAnd The Walls Came Tumbling Downâ A Building Bridges Special with Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Davis, Cornel West, Pam Africa, Jazz Hayden, Juan E. Mendez, Soffiyah Elijah, and Marc Lamont Hill Recalling in now its 41st year the Attica prison massacre of courageous prisoners who rose up against dehumanizing conditions, thousands came together to...
Topics: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Davis, Cornel West, Pam Africa, Jazz Hayden, Juan E. Mendez, Soffiyah...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., July 4, 7 â 8 pm EST ***************************** US Celebrates Its Independence Day After Imposing Junta to Rule Puerto Rico with Rafael Bernabe, candidate for Governor of Puerto Rico for the Partido del Pueblo Trabajador (PPT) 2012; professor and director of the Federico de OnÃs Hispanic Studies Center at the University of Puerto Rico at RÃo Piedras; economist; and who has published three books including...
Topics: Frederick Douglass July 4, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Gerald Horne, Amereican Revolution...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** NYC Taxi Drivers Caravan to Albany to Protect Full-Time Jobs with Bhairavi Desai, Ex. Dir. NY Taxi Workers Alliance A traffic jam of taxicabs circled the Capitol in Albany to put the brakes on legislation sponsored by ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft, which allow people to pick up passengers in their own cars. NYC would be required to accept drop-offs...
Topics: Bhairavi Desai, Taxi Workers Alliance, Uber, precarious jobs, taxi regulation New York State,...
Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report National Edition Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ***************** Public Housing Tenants Hung Out To Dry In Wake Of Sandy When Hurricane Sandy slammed NYC, tens of thousands of public housing tenants were left without power, heat, and running water; elderly & disabled residents were trapped on the upper floors of the developments, oftentimes lacking food and water and life essential medical needs. Weeks after the wind roared and...
Topics: New york city housing authority and Sandy, public housing and Sandy, superstorm Sandy, Red Hook...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition -27:49 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Nationâs Largest RN Organization Says Healthcare Bill Cedes Too Much to Insurance Industry With Jean Ross, Co-President, National Nurses United National Nurses United, the nationâs largest union of registered nurses, criticized the healthcare bill passed by the U.S. Senate saying âit is tragic to see the promise from Washington this year for...
Topics: health care reform, single payer, National Nurses United, Unite--HERE, John Wilhelm, Richard...
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, October 6, 2008, 7 â 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM (58 minutes **************************************** NYC: Financial Disaster Ahead? with James Parrott Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute Author, "The End of Wall Street as We Know It" Employers cut 159,000 jobs in Sept.. It was the biggest monthly decline since 2003 and new evidence of a strengthening recession. The NYC financial industry,...
Topics: economic crisis, New York State economy, Colombia trade unions, Afro-Colombians
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** What's Ahead for More than One-Million who Just Lost Unemployed Benefits , the Unraveling of the Safety Net and Planning for Job Creation, to Address Income Stagnation and Wealth Inequality with Richard Eskow, Senior Fellow, Campaign for Americaâs Future The unemployment insurance program provides laid-off workers with a fraction of their old salary for a fixed period of time while the search for a new...
Topics: Unemployment compensation benefits, unemployment, Richard Eskow, food stamps, SNAP, wealth...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:59 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Inspiration From Egypt: A May Day Message with Hossam el-Hamalawy, Historian, Activist Reporter,Blogger, from Cairo The events in Egypt, were a catalyst throughout the Middle East for the yearnings for democracy and working class empowerment. And, as well the aspirations & activism of the Egyptians has given inspiration to us here, in the face of a...
Topics: Egypt labor unions, Egypt free unions, Egypt state unions, Egypt May Day, Hossam el-Hamalawy, Egypt...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., Sept 26, 7 â 8 pm EST ***************************** The Real Deal: we the people, wonât allow our voices to be drowned out by âReality TVâ staged debates that exclude our true concerns - weâll be there to tell it like it is! featuring We the People Amidst the mass mediaâs hoopla promoting of and selling the Clinton/Trump debate, as though it were a heavy weight boxing championship weâll bring you the real...
Topics: rikers island, fight for 15 clinton-trump debate hofstra, close rikers
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ********************* The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workersâ Movement with Stanley Aronowitz with In the 1950s, Aronowitz was a factory metalworker. In the â50s and â60s, he directed organizing with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers. In 1963, he coordinated labor participation for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Ten...
Topics: Stanley aronowitz, Death and Life of American Labor, workers movement, labor, Unions, union...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Building Bridges, Not Walls! â A Building Bridges Democratic Convention Special With Deborah Burger Co-President, National Nurses United and Larry Hamm, veteran activist, Chairman the Peopleâs Organization for Progress With her selection of Gov. Tim Kaine as her running mate Hillary Clinton reinforced her determination to run a traditional political campaign...
Topics: National Nurses United Bernie Sanders, Nurses Nurses United DNC, Deborah Burger DNC, Larry Hamm...
Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report National Edition 27:43 Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** Community Seeks Justice For Michael Lembhard, The Latest African-American Youth To Die By The Hands Of Newburgh Police With Lillie Howard, community activist whose grandson was killed by Newburgh police and Juanita King, cousin of Michael Lembhard, killed by Newburgh police Anger still rages in the latest police killing March 7, in the city of Newburgh, NY of...
Topics: Michael Lembhard, Newburgh police, Lillie Howard, Juanita King, Judy
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Trump Las Vegas Hotel Workers Say Heâs Anti-Worker. Heâd Rather Say âYOUR FIREDâ than Allow Workers to Unionize! with Bethany Khan, Director of Communications, Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Luis Carlos, Banquet food server, Trump Hotel Las Vergas After a resounding âYESâ vote to unionize with the Culinary Workers Union, Local 226, Trumpâs Hotel Las...
Topics: Trump hotel union, Culinary workers union, Ronald Reagan 1948, Trump union, Trump NLRB, Hotel...
Building Bridges with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, December, 31, 2012, 7 - 8 pm EST over WBAI Radio, 99.5 FM, or streaming live at http://www.wbai.org ******************************** A Building Bridges New Yearâs Eve Special for January 1st, Haitiâs 209th Independence Day Trade Union Leaders From Latin America & Caribbean Demand UN Haiti Occupation End! with . Julio Turra, National Exec. Dir. , United Trade Union Central of Workers of Brazil (CUT) . Fignolé St. Cyr, Gen....
Topics: Haiti UN, Haiti Clinton, Haiti Guadaloupe, Haiti Brazil, Haiti unions, unions Brazil
Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report National Edition Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** Louisiana Guest Workers Expose Forced Labor Coverup At Walmart Supply Chain and Take Protest To Walmart Board Memberâs Home Mexican guest workers, who peel crawfish for C.J.âs Seafood in Louisiana confronted their bosses after being forced to work shifts of up to 24 hours, werenât allowed to take breaks, were cheated out of their overtime pay and were threatened...
Topics: guestworkers Louisiana, National Guestworkers Alliance, Wal-Mart, C, J. Crawfish, C.J.âs...
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ******************** Hey Governor Cuomo, We Need a Real Minimum Wage Now! with Assembly member Linda Rosenthal Senator Jose Peralta The Coalition for a Real Minimum-Wage Increase The new minimum wage bill will not be indexed to inflation, instead Governor Cuomoâs wage bill raises the minimum wage to only $9 an hour in three years - too little, too late. We need a real minimum wage increase that lifts people out of...
Topics: Nys minimum wage, Cuomo minimum wage, Assembly member Linda Rosenthal, Senator Jose Peralta, The...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:17 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ******************************************** Corporations Say, Why Bargain With Free Labor When Thereâs A Captive Labor At Our Disposal? with Rania Khalek, independent journalist, AlterNet Prison labor is every Corporation's dream - cheap labor, no sick leave, no time off, no holidays and employees that can be easily replaced. Of course, for human rights activists however, it's a...
Topics: Rania Khalek, Margaret Flowers, Medicare, Medicare for All, single payer
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., January 26, 2015, 7 - 8pm EST *****************************. Fired McDonald's Workers File Civil Rights Suit Claiming Racial Discrimination with Catherine Ruckelshaus, National Employment Law Project Several McDonaldâs workers filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the company alleging a âwidespread pattern of racial and sexual discrimination and harassmentâ at some stores. The suit, filed in the U.S....
Topics: Cuomo budget, green party Cuomo budget, Howie Hawkins Cuomo budget, Virginia McDonaldâs civil...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ****************************************** Deadly Exchanges: Policing Resistance Movements, and US and Israeli Collaboration with Eran Efrati, executive director of RAIA (Researching the American- Israeli Alliance), an investigative researcher into the Israeli military. He formerly served as the chief researcher of Breaking the Silence, where he collected testimonies from hundreds of IDF...
Topics: U.S. Israel policing., Eran Efrati RAIA (Researching the American- Israeli Alliance, BDS...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** New Jerseyâs Powerful Grassroots Peoples Organization for Progress Takes Bernie Sanders to Heart with Larry Hamm, veteran activist, Chairman the Peopleâs Organization for Progress POP has rarely departed from a long-standing policy of not supporting candidates for office and engaged in a rigorous debate and careful consideration before reaching its position on...
Topics: Larry Hamm Bernie Sanders, Peoples Organization for Progress Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matters...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report The National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** Hey Gov. Cuomo Your Budgetâs Wrong, Itâs Tax the Rich and Feed the Poor, Not the Other Way Around! with Frederick Floss, Executive Director, Fiscal Policy Institute and Professor of Economics and Finance at Buffalo State College When it comes to the state budget Cuomo's approach is out of focus and falls far short in making the essential public investments to expand...
Topics: Governor Cuomo budget, New York State Budget, Frederick Floss, Fiscal Policy Institute, New York...
WBAIâs Radio Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, April 23, 2012, 7- 8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash ******************************** ACT UP N.Y. Commemorates 25th Anniversary By Taking To Wall Street With OWS To End Financial Crimes Against People With Aids & The 99% With Judit Rius Sanjuan, U.S. Manager of the Access Campaign, Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Eric Sawyer, founding member ACT UP,...
Topics: ACT UP N.Y., financial transactions tax, aids, Bloomberg education, New York Communities, RWDSU...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 28 minutes Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Building a Movement for Green Jobs to Re-industrialize the U.S. with Leo Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers We feature the voice of a labor leader who is building bridges between workers internationally and sees the ties that bind the labor and environmental movements in the U.S. Leo Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers with...
Topics: economic crisis, unemployment, Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers, The Green Collar Economy, China...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:06 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Africa: Its Labor News & Views In Focus produced by Radio Workers World Productions, Cape Town, South Africa Building Bridges in collaboration with South African based radio Workers World Productions brings us the issues for and protests of Africaâs laboring class, amidst the global economic crisis. ********** Billionaires For Wealthcare...
Topics: Africa Labor, South Africa Labor Unions, Senator Bernie Sanders, Billionaires for Wealthcare,...
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ******************** Analyzing The Landmark Decision Holding Stop & Frisk Unconstitutional with Samuel Walker, criminal justice expert, witness in the historic trial Judge Scheindlin's decision confirms what the communities subject to being stopped and frisked already knew, the NYPD's Stop & Frisk program violates the constitutional rights of Black and Latino New Yorkers every day. Samuel Walker, takes us through...
Topics: Samuel Walker, Constance Malcolm, mother of Ramarley Graham, stop and frisk, Judge Scheindlin,...
Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5 FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., Sept. 11, 7 â 8 pm EST ***************************** First âDreamerâ gets deported, 32BJ responds with Héctor Figueroa, Pres. of 32BJ Service Employees International Union, the largest property services union in the country. Juan Manuel Montes Bojorquez, 23, has lived in the United States since he was 9. He said he had a valid permit. He has become the first so-called Dreamer to be deported by the Trump...
Topics: DACA and unions, Local 32bj Hector Figueroa immigration, Sanders Medicare for All, Carol Paris...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash *****************************. Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa featuring Luke Sinwell, senior researcher at the University of Johannesburg, whose research includes radical theories and practices of participatory governance, social movements and housing struggles, ethnographic research methods and action research. In addition to his book on Marikana, he is co-editor of Contesting...
Topics: Luke Sinwell, South African Unions, Irvin Jim, National Union of Metal Workers South Africa...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:30 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness with Michelle Alexander, civil rights advocate and litigator, author Alexander offers a bold and innovative argument that mass incarceration amounts to a devastating system of racial control. âJarvious Cottonâs great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was...
Topics: new Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, drug arrests, war on crime, civil rights, African American males
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 26:58 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Will President Obamaâs Overhaul Of Healthcare Be More Than A Band-Aid with Oliver Fein, President, Physicians for a National Health Program, and Dr. of Internal Medicine, the Weill Cornell Medical Center and David Himmelstein, Assoc. Professor of Medicine, Harvard Univ. and Co-Founder Physicians for a National Health Program President Obama...
Topics: health care, single payer, medicare for all, physicians for a national healthcare program, Dr....
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** The Flint Water Crisis from the Ground Up with . Sean Crawford, a Flint resident and auto worker whose great grandfather was Vice Chair of the Flint sit-down strike . Claire McClinton, Member of Flint Democracy Defense League It's like living in "some sort of a dystopian novel," Sean Crawford writes, "to find National Guard troops going door to...
Topics: Flint Water Crisis, Flint emergency manager, Sean Crawford, Claire McClinton, Flint Democracy...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ********************* Whatâs At Stake: The Supreme Court Ruled on Two of the Most Important Worker-Rights Cases In itâs History with Nicole Berner, SEIU Associate General Counsel and Richard Blum, Employment Law Project The Legal Aid Society Join us and our experts to analyze two of the most significant decisions by the Supreme Court ever regarding workers rights. The U.S. Supreme Court...
Topics: Hobby Lobby, Harris v Quinn, Supreme Court workers rights, public employees fair share fees, public...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 28 minutes ******************************************** Health Care, Who Cares? With The Coalition against Privatization of GHI and HIP Protesters massed outside the Manhattan offices of GHI after a proposal to convert GHI and HIP to a for-profit status. This would adversely affect 4 million GHI & HIP subscribers state- wide, including 500,000 NYC public employees. It will mean higher...
Topics: Israel, Palestine, national health care
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report The National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** New York Has the Financial Muscle to Leverage to Combat Inequality with Connie Razza, Research Dir., Center for Popular Democracy and Arthur Cheliotes, Pres. Local 1180, Communication Workers of America New York is among the most unequal cities in the US. This inequality has become the most pressing issue in New York City and New York State. The good news is New Yorkers...
Topics: Connie Razza, Center for Popular Democracy, Arthur Cheliotes, Local 1180, Communication Workers of...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** The People's Summit: A Way Forward for Peoples Power with RoseAnn DeMoro, Executive Director, National Nurses United and Winnie Wong, Founder, People for Bernie & a Peopleâs Summit Organizer So you couldnât attend the Peoples Summit, well weâll provide a report back on the historic convening of organizations and individuals committed to social, racial and...
Topics: Peopleâs Summit, RoseAnn DeMoro, National Nurses United, Winnie Wong, People for Bernie,...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ********************* New Yorkâs Extreme School Segregation: Inequality, Inaction and a Damaged Future featuring Gary Orfield, Co-Dir., Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles In a report released by UCLAâs Civil Rights Project its Co-Director said âin the 30 years I have been researching schools, New York State has consistently been one of the most segregated states in the nation --...
Topics: New York School Segregation, Gary Orfield, Civil Rights Project, Proyecto Derechos Civiles
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** "A Day Without a Woman" For years, International Womenâs Day has gone largely unnoticed or was depoliticized. Most people no longer know that its roots lie in the struggle of women garment workers in the United States â or that a mobilization of women in Russia to oppose World War I in 1917 was the spark for an uprising that led to the overthrow of...
Topics: Day without a woman, womenâs strike, womenâs strike, Working Womenâs Day NYC.,...
Building Bridges, National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ***************** Cops Who Killed Kimani Gray Focus Of 5 Prior Federal Civil Rights Lawsuits Another stolen Black life! Sixteen year old, African-American Kimani Gray was mortally wounded after 7 of the 11 bullets fired entered his body both the front and the back. The murderous shots were fired by Sergeant Mourad Mourad and Officer Jovaniel Cordova, who had already racked up five civil rights violations in federal lawsuits....
Topics: Kimani Gray, police brutality New York City, stop and frisk, Sergeant Mourad Mourad, Officer...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash *********************** From Ferguson to Staten Island Building Resistance to Police Terror with Michael McPhearson, Ex. Dir. of Veterans for Peace, Carl Dix, co-founder, with Dr. Cornel West of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, Shahid Buttar, Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Arguably the most significant uprising in many years in this country, in response to the...
Topics: Ferguson Missouri, Michael McPhearson, Veterans for Peace, Carl Dix, Shahid Buttar, Bill of Rights...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** A Free, Free Palestine Remains The Question featuring, Jeff Halper, an anthropologist, author of several books on the Israeli-Palestine conflict, lecturer about Israeli politics, and political activist who has lived in Israel since 1973. He is best known as the co-founder and Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. He is a supporter of...
Topics: Jeff Halper, Omar Barghouti, Boycott Divestment Sanctions Israel, Palestine, Israeli Committee...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Trumpâs Continuing War on Immigrants With Justin Flores , Vice President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee Andrea Cristina Mercado, Campaign Director at the National Domestic Worker Alliance Carlos Jimenez, Executive Director Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO While a Federal Appeals Panel unanimously rejected President Trumpâs bid to reinstate his ban on travel...
Topics: Trump immigration executive order, Justin Flores farm labor immigration trump, Andrea Cristina...
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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************* Special for Womenâs History Month "Your Home, My Workâ - Domestic Workers Uniting NOTE: 56:27 AND 28 MINUTE VERSIONS AVAILABLE BELOW Building Bridges allows domestic workers to tell their stories - stories of their pains, their pride and their efforts to organize for labor rights. Since slavery, the domestic work force has been predominately women of color....
Topics: women, domestic workers, labor, organizing
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Teach the Children Well: The Battle for Public Education featuring Diane Ravitch, one of the foremost authorities on education in the U.S., former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, âwhistle-blower extraordinaire,â author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and...
Topics: Diane Ravitch, New York State Budget Education, standardized testing Diane Ravitch, Charter schools...
Building Bridges, the National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ****************** Live, In Conversation with Peoplesâ Lawyer and Former U.S. Political Prisoner Lynne Stewart, and Commentaries from Political Prisoners Representatives, her Attorney and Family on Her Release Lynne Stewart, just freed from prison following a worldwide campaign to release her and even as she battles cancer is preparing for the next phase of her life â âI see myself fighting to bring home all of the...
Topics: Lynne Stewart, U.S. political prisoners
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** It Takes Roots to Weather the Storm: the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Challenges COP21 Climate Conference in Paris with Kali Akuno, is a founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, an emerging network of worker cooperatives and supporting institutions in Jackson, Mississippi and the South. Kali also served as the Co-Director of the US Human Rights...
Topics: Kali Akuno Cooperation Jackson, climate change conference Kali Akuno, environmental racism Kali...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** How Trump and his key advisors stand to profit from the Dakota Access Pipeline with Antonia Juhasz, an American oil and energy analyst, author, journalist and activist. She has authored three books: The Bush Agenda, The Tyranny of Oil, and Black Tide. Juhasz details what Donald Trumpâs win means for the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, which would run...
Topics: Standing Rock Sioux, Dakota Access Pipeline, Dakota Access Trump, Antonia Juhasz Dakota Access
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** New Orleans After The Flood: The Anatomy of African-American Displacement with Gary Rivlin, author Katrina After the Flood, journalist Now, there is a commemorative marker at the site where a floodwall protecting the Lower Ninth Ward collapsed, unleashing a wall of water 10 years ago during Hurricane Katrina. The resulting flood wiped out the African-American...
Topics: Katrina race and class, Katrina Gary Rivlin, Katrina African Americans, Katrina New Orleans black...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Vulture Hedge Funds Circle on Higher Ground as Puerto Rico Drowns in Debt with University of Puerto Rico Prof. Rafael Bernabe Riefkohl, Working People's Party spokesperson and candidate for the Governor of Puerto Rico, and noted co-author of Puerto Rico in the American Century A History since 1898 Puerto Ricoâs fiscal perils are currently in the news. It is an...
Topics: PuertoRico debt crisis, Rafael Bernabe, U.S. colonialism Puerto Rico, Hedge funds Puerto Rico
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Multiple Arrests As NY Protesters Rally Over Deadly Chicago, Minneapolis Police Shootings Millions March NYC and NYC Shut It Down â both of which are part of the Black Lives Matter movement held a rally in Washington Square Park decrying police violence against African-Americans. Protesters rallied and marched over recent deadly police shootings in Chicago of...
Topics: Police shootings, black lives matter, Laquan McDonald Chicago, Jamar Clark Minneapolis, Millions...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Americaâs not Broke. Not even close. Tax the Rich Overall average individual wealth in the United States has risen 23 percent since the year 2000, to $236,213 per American adult. But, wealth has become incredibly more concentrated. We are taxing the dollars that go to our ever-richer rich at levels far below the tax rates that America levied just a few decades...
Topics: Meizhu Lui, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative, Insight Center for Community Economic...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27:32 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg **************************** Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres Free After 30 Years In Prison with Carlos Alberto Torres A discussion with Carlos Alberto Torres, free from behind bars after 30 years. He was convicted of seditious conspiracy - conspiring to use force against the lawful authority of The United States over Puerto Rico. Torres was punished for being...
Topics: Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican Independence, Carlos Alberto Torres, imperialism, U.S. colonies, Lolita...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Following $15/Hour Victories in CA, NY, PA, Underpaid Workers Intensify Call for $15, and Union Rights Nationwide with Record 300-City Strike, and Protests! Fast-food, home care, child care, airport, higher education, hospital and other underpaid workers in the Biggest-ever day of global strikes and protests demanded 15 dollars and hour and union rights for...
Topics: 15 and a union, minimum wage, McDonalds minimum wage, McDonalds union, Trump unions, Trump minimum...
Building Bridges, National Edition by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ***************** The Zero Dark Thirty Controversy: Torture, Art, and Politics with Alexander Abdo, attorney, National Security Project, ACLU Since the release of the award-winning Zero Dark Thirty, many critics have condemned the film, claiming it contains serious historical inaccuracies and accepts some of this countryâs worst post 9/11 abuses. Alexander Abdo discusses the relationship and responsibility that prominent works...
Topics: Alexander Abdo, attorney, National Security Project, ACLU, Robert Redford, Paul Auster, Zero Dark...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Beyond Resistance: A Peopleâs Movement for a Just World with Deborah Burger, Co-President of America's RN Union: National Nurses United, co-convener of the Beyond Resistance Summit and Sen. Bernie Sanders At a time of tremendous turmoil and progressive opportunity, thousands gathered to participate in a historic convening committed to social, racial and...
Topics: Bernie Sanders, Deborah Burger National Nurses United, Peopleâs Summit
The I Am Troy Davis Campaign To Abolish the Death Penalty with * Kimberly Davis, Troy's sister * Jen Marlowe, author I Am Troy Davis * Eve Ensler, playwright, activist * Yusef Salaam, Central Park 5 and death penalty abolitionist * Lawrence Hayes (death row exonoree) * Rebel Diaz, RAP cultural worker, activist Two years ago, the state of Georgia ignored the facts, doubts and pleas of hundreds of thousands of people and killed Troy Davis. Now on the anniversary of his execution we invite you to...
Topics: Troy Davis, Death penalty, Jen Marlowe, I Am Troy Davis, Eve Ensler, Yusef Salaam, Lawrence Hayes,...
WBAIâs Radio Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, February 6, 2012, 7- 9 pm EST, over 99.5 FM Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash ******************************** The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness with Michelle Alexander, human rights activist, litigator, best-selling author Racism is rampant. The Mayorâs, the NYPDâs policing policies and practices, that resulted in the killing of an unarmed Rahmarley Graham, 18 years...
Topics: New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27' Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ******************************************** NYC Students Stand Firm After CUNY Police Bully Them During Occupy City Univeristy of NY (CUNY) Protest Over Tuition Hikes With l Occupy CUNY Student Members Hector Agredano & Emma Francis-Snyder l Barbara Bowen, President of CUNY Professional Staff Congress Students, faculty, Occupy CUNY and OWS demonstrated outside Baruch College to...
Topics: Occupy CUNY, Occupy Wall Street, Barbara Bowen, CUNY Professional Staff Congress, AFT, tuition...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg *************************** Building Trades Activists Break Mold in Protest of Trump with Gretchen Newsom, Political Director, IBEW Local 569, San Diego Building Trades activists from Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 569 knew they had to do something. âWe couldnât let him come and speak to us and just sit there,â said William Stedham, an executive board member of the local. âIf we...
Topics: Trump unions, Trump construction unions, Gretchen Newsom IBEW Trump, Spectrum cable strike, Local 3...
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ********************* BP May Be Fined Up to $18 Billion for âWillful Misconductâ for Spill in Gulf featuring Antonia Juhasz, an oil and energy analyst, author, journalist and activist. She has authored several books, including Black Tide: the Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill, Juhasz is currently writing a feature article for Harper's Magazine on the impacts of the disaster on the deep...
Topics: Antonia Juhasz, BP oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, gulf oil spill
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash and Housing Notebook Produced & Hosted by Scott Sommer ******************** One Nation Working Together March on Washington A Building Bridges and Housing Notebook Special â We will present a special program with speeches and interviews from this massive demonstration on Saturday, October 2nd at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC The One Nation Working Together March...
Topics: Arthur Cheliotos, CWA Local 1180, Harry Belafonte, Luis Gutierrez, Richard Trumpka, Cecil Roberts,...
Building Bridges National Edition with Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg United Automobile Workers Sets Its Sight on Mississippi Nissan Plant to Break the Back of Nonunion South featuring Sheila Wilson, autoworker, Canton Mississippi Nissan Plant Raphael Martinez, autoworker, Canton Mississippi Nissan Plant It is just more than a month since the UAW suffered a bruising defeat at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, with workers voting not to join a union in an election widely seen as a test of whether...
Topics: Mississippi Nissan organizing, United Automobile workers and Nissan, southern union organizing and...
Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report National Edition Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ***************** A Building Bridges Special Report On Hurricane Victims in NYC's Coney Island: After The Storm: Coney Islandâs Beleaguered Residents Remind Us That The Real Devastation Is Continuously Drowning In Poverty Coney Islandâs residents wander about amidst the mounds and mounds of sand, pushed blocks back into their streets and homes by Sandy in this oceanfront community....
Topics: Hurricane Sandy, FEMA, disaster relief, Coney Island, hurricane New York City
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash 27 minutes ******************************************* Filipina Immigrant Worker Sues Former UN Ambassador From the Phillipines over Human Trafficking Violations with Ivy O. Suriyopas, Staff Attorney, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) Marichu Suarez Baoanan, a citizen from the Philippines, paid $5,000 to the the Ambassador & his wife's travel agency for...
Topics: Phillipines, immigrant workers, slavery, Korea, undocumeneted immigrants
Building Bridges with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, January 28, 2013, 7 - 8 pm EST over WBAI Radio, 99.5 FM, or streaming live at http://www.wbai.org ******************************** Canadian Oil Workers Tell Obama Reject Keystone XL Pipeline: Itâs Bad for the Environment & Bad for Workers with Dave Coles, Pres. Communications, Energy & Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) Canada's largest union in several key sectors, including forestry, energy, media,and telecommunications at a...
Topics: SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras, Dave Coles, XL Pipeline, ATU Local 1181. NYC school Bus strike, Ramsey Clark
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